Hi Cryptic, just saw your message about this. I'm not sure where to put it. I put it in my common.css but it didn't seem to do anything. I don't know of my .js stuff can interfere - that's a bit of a mess but I just put up with the error messages now. Thanks. Doug Wellertalk 15:01, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't see anything in your common.js that would interfere. The css will only affect rollback links added by Mediawiki itself, so it won't do anything about ones added by Twinkle. Twinkle might interfere with the Mediawiki ones, too - I don't use it, so can't be sure. —Cryptic 15:16, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

I misunderstood the discussion. I like having the rollback link in my watchlist as it shows me if an edit is the latest edit. Unless there's something else that will do the same thing, which wouldn't surprise me, I'd rather take the risk of accidental rollback. Thanks for the quick reply. Doug Wellertalk 15:38, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

All the given links are of news portals, and facts auch as number of centers, financial holding structure of the company, list of investors has bene provided in those articles. While the headline of the news article suggests about fund raising, the same wasn't mentioned anywhere in the wiki article. In fact all the facts and figures quoted on the wiki page have been memtioned clearly in the news articles, which were used as citations.

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Polyisobutene. Since you had some involvement with the Polyisobutene redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Thryduulf (talk) 14:43, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Entire content was '''Erica Procunier''' is a [[Canada|Canadian]] film and television composer.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2421501/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1}}</ref> She has composed for [[And Now a Word from Our Sponsor]]. External links to www.ericaprocunier.com, IMDB again, and cfccreates.com/alumni/658. Want the categories? —Cryptic 20:33, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I can't understand this deletion. Wikipedia has lost the page for the open source language JQ. Jordinas (talk) 07:11, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

@Jordinas:(talk page stalker) FYI the reason was Expired PROD, concern was: The only reference is primary, as are all external links. No indication that this is more than a personal project. Article was created by Jordinas, whose contributions all involve adding links to jq from other pages; COI likely.. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=96412147 deletion log). If you do indeed have a COI, I suggest declaring it. If you intend to recreate the page, I would also suggest submitting it to AfC rather than creating it in mainspace. Just my 2 cents. If you are just someone who codes in Jq and wanted to right about it, then feel free to disregard. --DannyS712 (talk) 07:15, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, the jq language was, indeed, at one time very much a personal project of [[1]|Stephen Dolan], however, it isn't just a personal project any longer, and I don't see why it should matter if it was anyways, as jq is a very popular language. jq has two current maintainers not the original author, and has had quite a few [[2]|contributors]. jq is ranked at #46 on the [[3]|Rosetta Code rankings], for whatever that is worth. The fact that jq continues to be hosted at a personal repository on GitHub is hardly important, as it is trivial to create an organization for a personal project -- the complaint here appears to be purely about style, that the homepage being on a personal GitHub is somehow bad. As to COI, I don't see it. Was it Stephen Dolan who created it? I don't know who [[User:Jordinas]|Jordinas] is, but, if it is the GitHub user [[4]|fadado], then that is just a fan of the language. FWIW, [[User:Cryptonector]|I] am one of the current maintainers of jq, which you can see by looking at the commit history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cryptonector (talk • contribs) 23:41, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

quarry:query/33247 for the first three bullets. This is only accurate for grants/revocations in November 2012 or later, when the log format changed; I don't remember offhand when the patroller group was added, but I think it was well after that. Also doesn't account for promotions to sysop, so there's probably false positives.

I haven't looked into how locked users are represented in the db before, so that'll be later. —Cryptic 02:37, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Blocked patrollers are at quarry:query/33250. quarry:query/33249 shows there's no globally-locked users with NPP on enwiki. If there were, you could get the lock log with something like

though, really, there's never going to be more than one at a time, and that only if someone were really remiss, and it'd be easier to go to meta and search the logs directly. —Cryptic 04:33, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for being so fast and so efficient:-) Your help is appreciated! ∯WBGconverse 12:39, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Cryptic, Can you please advise me how to close the arbitration case for Future.perf? Thanks in advance - Stevepeterson (talk) 02:26, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

@Stevepeterson: Better that you don't try yourself; the arbitrators are a bit territorial. Just add something like "I withdraw this request." to the end of your statement. —Cryptic 02:47, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Never mind, I see you've already done so. Just give it some time. —Cryptic 02:51, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

No, I can't; admins don't have the authority to just undelete articles deleted at AFD on their own say-so. You need to take this to WP:Deletion review. —Cryptic 22:11, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I'll consider that you don't want to help me. I'm french, I dont don't know what I must do and your answer will not help me. I stop thixs message now because I'm anger against you.--Sismarinho (talk) 09:20, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Dear Cryptic,
I want to help fix the page for 'Matthew Tee Kai Woon' it seems like it had citation, reference, copy paste issues. I believe I can fix these issues and resubmit it to you for your consideration. Hoping for a positive reply from your side.
Regards,
Mansoor
Mansooriqbalnagori (talk) 07:52, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

The article was deleted as a copyright violation. It can't be restored and fixed iteratively; you have to start a new article from scratch (for which you don't need my permission). —Cryptic 08:58, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

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Is it possible for me to get a userspace copy of this deleted article? This subject came up in dinner conversation recently and I was surprised that he did not have an article. A quick news search leads me to believe there's a strong case for notability. ~Kvng (talk) 18:26, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Cryptic. I forked your queries [5][6] and I was wondering if you had a moment to look them over and let me know if I'm "doing it right", or missing anything, and whether you think these numbers are "real" (accurate)?

Nothing wrong with the queries per se (the ones I spot-checked, anyway). Checking for infoboxes happens to work very well for footballers, since both players and managers use the same infobox, and the infobox is very consistently used. I have no idea how consistently the other infoboxes you're checking for are used, though - you may be better off looking for category intersections, for which Petscan is the tool of choice. If nothing else, it should provide a useful crosscheck. —Cryptic 10:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the response and spot-checking. Petscan seems to crap out for Category:Living people (large categories?), and I can't figure out how to do category intersections on Quarry, or how to search for categories and subcategories. E.g., Living people+Office-holders. The quarry documentation and example scripts don't seem to have the answer. Is there's a help file somewhere I should RTFM? Should I post on RAQ? Thanks again. Levivich 22:14, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

(and maybe add a "AND page_namespace = 0" to limit it to mainspace pages, though there should only be mainspace pages in Category:Living people anyway).

Subcategories are less straightforward, and if there's an efficient way to do it besides either enumerating the subcategories manually (like "AND c2.cl_to IN ('Subcategory_name_1', 'Subcategory_name_2', 'Subcategory_name_3')") or doing a text match on them (like "AND c2.cl_to LIKE '%_politicians'"), then I don't know it.

The quarry documentation and other query examples on meta mostly assume that you already know SQL and just aren't familiar with the Mediawiki database schema, so there's no FM I'm aware of for you to R to get better specifically at Wikipedia queries. WP:RAQ is reasonably well-watched by knowledgeable folks despite being underutilized; posting there's a good idea. —Cryptic 01:49, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, just wondering if you could take a look at the move request that's been opened at Talk:Ayman Joumaa (disambiguation). I see you were involved with the AfD and subsequent protection for Ayman Zakaria Jomaa a few years ago. A new article has been created with the incorrect spelling Ayman Zakaria Joumaa, I don't know how this differs from the version that was deleted so WP:G4 may or may not apply, but if it looks good perhaps you could lift protection and move it to the correct title? Regards. PC78 (talk) 16:13, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

The text is very different. The references aren't the same, but are of the same character - they're namedrops, PR releases, and an interview. Probably needs a new AFD, though another admin might be willing to G4 it (I'm very cautious with G4 and G11 specifically because I think we should use them much, much more often than we do). I'll unprotect, though. —Cryptic 16:59, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I've moved the article but will leave it to others to determine notability. Appreciate the help. PC78 (talk) 17:18, 23 May 2019 (UTC)